Chemical Reaction Engineering: Beyond the Fundamentals
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Features
- Reviews major concepts in chemical reaction engineering
- Explores residence time distribution analysis, mixing and reactor stability, and nonlinear dynamics
- Discusses the analysis of multiphase systems and experimental methods for kinetic studies
- Introduces kinetic modeling using molecular simulation methods
- Presents a unique classification scheme for reactors, demonstrating how to apply engineering analysis to a representative spectrum of industrially important reaction engineering problems
- Includes case studies, worked examples, and student assignments
Summary
This up-to-date textbook fills a longstanding gap for graduate courses in chemical reaction engineering. It explores the interplay between transport processes and reaction kinetics, multiphase reactions and reactors, and optimization and reactor stability. The book includes a brief review of major concepts, describes chemical reaction kinetics and the effect of various factors, and addresses reactor classification and reactor design for increasingly complex situations. It helps readers to develop the facility to apply engineering analysis to a representative spectrum of industrially important reaction engineering problems.
Table of Contents
FUNDAMENTALS REVISITED
Chemical Reaction Analysis
Chemical Reactor Analysis
CHEMICAL REACTION ANALYSIS: Building on the Fundamentals
Complex Reactions
Catalysis by Solids and in Solution
Kinetics and Modeling of Solid Catalyzed Reactions
Role of Internal Mass and Heat Transfer
Role of External Heat and Mass Transfer
Experimental Methods for Solid Catalyzed Reactions: Comparison and Choice of Reactors
Gas-Liquid Reactions
Experimental Methods for Gas-Liquid Reactions: Comparison and Choice of Reactors
Gas-Solid Reactions
Three-Phase Reactions
Kinetic Modeling Using Atomic and Molecular Simulation
CHEMICAL REACTOR ANALYSIS: Building on the Fundamentals
Classification oflndustrial Reactors
Homogeneous Reactor Design
Design of Solid Catalyzed Fluid Phase Reactors
Design of Gas-Liquid Reactors
Design of Three-Phase Reactors
Estimation of Design Parameters for Major Reactor Types and Their Experimental Determination
Introduction to Reactor Design Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Author Bio(s)
L. K. Doraiswamy is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. He published a 950- page treatise on the application of chemical reaction engineering principles to organic synthesis, introducing a new field in chemical reaction engineering. He has received over 30 honors and awards in recognition if his contributions to chemical engineering.
Prof. Deniz Uner is the Chair of the Chemical Engineering department of the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey, and the Founding President of the Catalysis Society of Turkey. Her active research area is at the intersection of catalysis, chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics. Her present research is focused on energy efficient chemical conversions, and storage of solar and thermal energy in chemical bonds. She teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Thermodynamics, organizes summer schools and conferences on catalysis, provides consulting to the local chemical industry on catalysis and chemical reaction engineering, and is a proud mother of four.
